2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
In April, summer residents and a gardener have enough worries. At this time, the deadlines for planting in plots and in nurseries of cuttings and currants and grapes are approaching. Vineyard owners can start rooting cuttings. The same troubles await those who are engaged in breeding their favorite gooseberry varieties
Planting cuttings in nurseries
As a rule, cuttings of grapes, currants are left for storage in the basement until planting. Before you pull them out of the shelter, you need to take care of the preparation of the nursery or that part of the garden where it is planned to land immediately to a permanent place. In the nursery, the rows for planting are pre-marked. They need to be arranged with a distance of 50 cm. The holes for planting cuttings are made at a distance of 25-30 cm.
Currants are among the first to move to the beds. The depth of the planting pits for these cuttings should be approximately such that 2-3 buds peep out of the ground. After planting, the currants need to be spud. After some time, this land will settle, and shoots will start from the open eyes. After a year, they will need to be shortened at the level of 10-15 cm.
In the second half of April, it is the turn of the grapes. By this time, the soil will already be better warmed up by the spring sun. The technology for working with planting material is the same as for currants, but with one subtlety: only one bud should be left above the ground.
Reproduction by layering in the garden
Propagating your favorite grape variety is easy with ordinary layering. For this, last year's shoots are used. On the side of the selected vine, a hole is prepared with a depth of about 30 cm. The shoot is tilted to the ground and pinned in the hole with a wooden hook or a cut-off slingshot twig. The site of the connection of the shoot with the ground is crushed with soil mixture. A peg is driven in next to it for support, and the top of the vine peeping out of the ground is tied to it so that it is directed vertically upward. It should be cut into 2 eyes. By autumn, the shoot under the soil layer should grow its young roots and then it will be ready for the final separation from the mother bush.
Features of propagation by vertical layers of gooseberries
Gooseberry shoots are not as flexible as vines. However, this will not be an obstacle for an experienced gardener, who is set to propagate the shrub with vertical layers. However, this gooseberry procedure is more like a very high hilling. To do this, the gooseberries are not bent to the ground, like grapes, but sprinkled with soil without changing their natural position. Thanks to this technique, a kind of mounds are formed around them.
There is a trick that allows you to get even more rooted planting material. To do this, the branches are cut into 2 buds, and they begin to add the earth when the shoots from them reach a height of about 15 cm. It is necessary to observe the growth of gooseberries in order to raise the height of the earthen mound in a timely manner. The seedlings will be ready for branching in a year, next April.
Propagation technique by horizontal layers
A faster method to acquire more planting material is to propagate with horizontal layers. It is used on grape and gooseberry bushes. For this, grooves are prepared with a depth of no more than 5 cm. Shoots are laid in them, which are pinned, for example, in three places at approximately equal distance from each other. The attachment points to the ground are buried with earth. Such branches give several shoots, and each will develop its own root system. With the arrival of autumn, they are dug up and cut into separate seedlings, which are immediately transplanted to a permanent place allotted for them. But you should not abuse this technique. The disadvantage of this method is that seedlings from such horizontal layers are weaker than from vertical ones.
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